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RECERCAT author Cross, Liam author Parés, Narcís, 1966- author Galí Pérez, Olga author Ercan, Sena Beste author Sayis, Batuhan author Heaton, Pamela author Atherton, Gray 2025-11-13T17:03:36Z 2025-11-13T17:03:36Z 2025-11-10T06:41:11Z2025-11-10T06:41:11Z2025 http://hdl.handle.net/10230/71817 Synchronous movement between individuals has been shown to increase pro-sociality, such as closeness and generosity. To date, synchrony research tests these effects using a variety of movement tasks, including musical and non-musical coordination. However, musical versus non-musical synchrony may have separable pro-social effects. To test this, we had 60 children immersed in an augmented reality space called the ‘Moving Mandala’ where they moved asynchronously with only visual cues, synchronously with only visual cues or synchronously with musical and visual cues. We then tested for differences in pro-social effects using sharing and proxemics tasks. Results showed that while the synchrony version of the mandala led to greater closeness in the proxemics task, the musical synchrony led to more pro-sociality on the sharing task. The implications of these findings are discussed. © 2025 by the authors. Published by MDPI on behalf of the University Association of Education and Psychology. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Entrainment Synchrony Coordination Pro-sociality Full-body interaction Mixed reality The Moving Mandala: exploring the pro-social effects of musical and non-musical synchrony in children in a virtual world info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion